CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Brandon Sproat pitched one-hit ball for six shutout innings and had a career-high 10 strikeouts, Jake Bauers and Andrew Vaughn drove in runs and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee (48-29) won a series at Great American Ball Park for the ninth straight time and has won 12 of the last 13.<\/p>\n
The Brewers spoiled the return of Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz, who went 0 for 3 and struck out twice in his first game since May 31 after landing on the injured list with a strained hamstring for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n
Sproat (2-4) did not allow a baserunner until hitting JJ Bleday with a two-out pitch in the fourth. The only hit the right-hander surrendered was a leadoff single to Joey Ortiz to open the sixth. Edwin Arroyo reached on a fielder\u2019s choice, but was thrown out on a steal attempt. Blake Dunn struck out to keep it 1-0 after Bauers’ triple drove in the first run in the top of the inning.<\/p>\n
Sproat, who made his big league debut in September in a 3-2 loss in Cincinnati while pitching for the Mets, threw 80 pitches and did not walk a batter.<\/p>\n
Reds starter Nick Lodolo threw four scoreless innings before leaving with a left wrist contusion. Jackson Chourio reached on an infield single that struck the lefty’s pitching hand to start the fourth. Lodolo stayed in the game and worked out of a bases-loaded jam before being replaced by Julian Garcia.<\/p>\n
Garcia (0-1) got five outs in his major league debut but was charged with the loss. The 31-year-old is the third-oldest Reds player to make his debut since 1957. Garcia was replaced by Caleb Ferguson after issuing a two-out walk to Vaughn, who scored on Bauers’ triple.<\/p>\n
Chase Petty allowed a run-scoring sacrifice fly by Vaughn in the eighth in two innings of work<\/p>\n
The Reds (37-41) have managed just two hits for a second straight day after Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff took a perfect game into the sixth inning in the series opener.<\/p>\n
De La Cruz returned on the third anniversary of hitting for the cycle as a rookie \u2014 the Reds’ first in 34 years.<\/p>\n
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Brewers LHP Shane Drohan (3-2, 3.40 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (3-4, 4.82).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Brandon Sproat pitched one-hit ball for six shutout innings and had a career-high 10 strikeouts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,536],"class_list":["post-734125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-mlb","tag-reds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116803822178651229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}